HISTORICAL NEWS

WHY THE CARBONAIA?

The name La Carbonaia recalls our origins: the trades of woodcutters and charcoal burners have a historical tradition in our territory. Coal, together with firewood, were the main elements of the activities of an area characterized by an abundance of coppice woods, from which the Pomontina community drew as much as possible to survive.

Our grandparents were specialized in these ancient crafts and were experts in making the Cotta del Carbone. Even today, walking in the woods that go from Bettona to Gualdo Cattaneo it is easy to come across numerous “pitches”, where the charcoal burners built their “cotte”.

This tradition has remained in the population as a collective memory, as a cultural legacy of a community strongly linked to its roots and is revived every year during the village festival in August.

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